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You can't buy a hybrid cloud as a product nor as a service, and even if you could you would need to customise it for your unique requirements and constraints. The reality today is you need to buy the ingredients from a supplier then roll your own hybrid cloud and to manage this you need to put in place a Hybrid Cloud Manifesto.

The SPC-2 benchmark is a useful benchmark for bandwidth intensive sequential workloads, such as backup, ETL (extraction, translate, load) and large-scale analytics. Wikibon does a deep comparative analysis of the SPC-2 results, time-adjusting the pricing information to correct for different publication dates. Wikibon then analyses performance and price-performance together, and develops a guide to enable practitioners to understand the business options and best strategic fit. Wikibon concludes the Oracle ZS4-4 storage appliance dominates this high-bandwidth processing as of the best combination of good performance and great price performance at the high-end and mid-range of this market.

The thesis of the overall Wikibon research in this area is that within 2 years, the majority of IT installations will be moving to combine workloads together to share data using NAND flash as the only active storage media. This will save on IT budget and improve IT productivity, especially in the IT development function. Our research shows that these changes have the potential to reduce the typical IT budget by 34% over a five year period while delivering the same functionality to the business. The projected IT savings of moving to a shared-data all-flash datacenter for an organization with a $40M IT budget are $38M over 5 years, with an IRR of 246%, an annual ROI of 542%, and a breakeven of 13 months. Future research will look at the potential to maximize the contribution of IT to the business, and will conclude that IT budgets should increase to deliver historic improvements in internal productivity and increased business potential.

The Public Cloud market is still forming – but seems to be poised to soon enter the Early Majority stage of its development where user behavior, preferences, and strategies become more stable. Large enterprises are more discerning of Public Cloud IaaS offerings. Test and development appears to be a key entry point for them since scale, operational complexity, and security/compliance/regulatory demands require a more nuanced approach to Public Cloud for IaaS. Small and Medium enterprises have the greatest need for Public Cloud and should consider well-established, lower risk entry points to Public Cloud like SaaS, Email, and Web Applications before venturing into Mission Critical and IaaS workloads to help them navigate an increasingly complex and costly IT infrastructure environment.

10gen Projects Growth for MongoDB

10gen president Max Schireson sat down and spoke with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier on theCube at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 to talk about MongoDB (full video below).

10gen President Max Schireson on theCube at #OOW

MongoDB is an open source database system developed by 10gen. Max Schireson notes that the company has had rapid growth and progress recently. They went from a team of 25 last year to 175 today. This growth coincides with the customer expansion that has occurred. Initially MongoDB was mainly being utilized by web companies like Craigslist, Foursquare, and Shutterfly. They have now expanded into banks and telcos as well.

When asked about the ease of working with MongoDB, Schireson expressed that the goal behind MongoDB was to build something simple and appealing for developers. They wanted to make it scalable, so they looked at what features from SQL limited scalability. The other important factor was to keep features that would help developers to be productive.

A discussion about Oracle brings out that based on the large usage of Oracle means that MongoDB not only has to be cheaper than Oracle, but also better. Max Schireson feels that the economics of Oracle are outdated due to the cost of the database. He feels that “a database shouldn’t be ten times as expensive as everything else” required in order to operate that database.

The future outlook of MongoDB is more work around security and auditing the system. With the expansion into new customer types, compliance is becoming a more important issue. Their customers want to meet standards of security dealing with sensitive data that they house.

John Furrier brings out that according to the SiliconAngle TrendConnect report, MongoDB is more popular than Hadoop with data scientists, while IT professionals have more buzz about Hadoop. Max Schireson says that Hadoop is a good tool for complex or high end use cases, but that they want MongoDB to range from the simple to the complex in usage. Schireson also mentions that he does not see enterprises having to always choose between database systems by noting that companies like eBay and Foursquare utilize both MongoDB and Hadoop for different things in their system.

Lastly, Max Schireson expresses his enthusiasm about the future for MongoDB. He projects normalized growth in company size, with the transition to larger enterprises.

See the full interview below.

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